Vertex (a Jedi Knight successor?)

[Petzi]

So I found this game called Vertex and it looks a lot like JK2 and JKA, so I thought I'd share. It's still in development, but you can try it out for free.

EDIT: So plenty of people in the community already know about this game, as I should have known, but hopefully this post will reach some of the people who didn't know about it.

https://playvertex.com/

 

[Circa]

Correct, it's made by a few people that used to frequent JKHub actually. Their goal is to keep as much of the JKA combat in tact while still running on a newer engine, and obviously use nothing of the Star Wars IP. Their work has come along pretty nicely, I just wonder if the combat alone will bring people to play it. The main reason JKA was so popular and loved was because it was Star Wars.

[Bubbles]

To be honest the combat looks and feels clunky. Maybe it is just the animations but just doesnt seem right.

[CrashmanTheKook]

Played around with the demo in an empty map. Not bad, gameplay was fun, basically Jedi Academy. It has a block button like Movie Duels. Can't help but think it would be awesome if I could load in assets from JKA and JKO to play through those campaigns and more. Imagine being able to play a sandbox like Movie Duels or Galactic Legacy in a powerful engine like Unreal Engine 4. I'm going to play the JK Dark Forces II Unreal remake demo now.

[Smoo]

On 3/1/2025 at 5:43 PM, CrashmanTheKook said:

Played around with the demo in an empty map. Not bad, gameplay was fun, basically Jedi Academy. It has a block button like Movie Duels. Can't help but think it would be awesome if I could load in assets from JKA and JKO to play through those campaigns and more. Imagine being able to play a sandbox like Movie Duels or Galactic Legacy in a powerful engine like Unreal Engine 4. I'm going to play the JK Dark Forces II Unreal remake demo now.

theres already some jedi academy related mods you can install https://mod.io/g/vertex